I was running drscheme under windows when I had to "forcefully" end
the program.
The next time I tried to run it, I received an internal error :
filter : list expected: eof
I uninstalled and re-installed TWICE, and still was seeing the same
error using drscheme. mzscheme & mred worked fine.
drscheme would get through the "loading" phase and then bail out with
the internal error.
After some experimentation I found that i could run drscheme as admin.
However the user account I was using still could not.
After thinking that it might be trying to load a truncated file of
some sort I started looking for files and found :
.plt-toc-index ????
,plt-toc-index-backup ???
something or other. Unfortunately I deleted them without writing down
the filenames. I deleted them (from the user home directory drive)
and the problems stopped. I checked them first and one was empty and
one (the backup) had the empty list in int.
So this brings up the following issues:
* The uninstall really ought to kill those files off (and yes I did
select the remove user config files option).
* is there any way to trace the "load" process of drscheme, so that I
could have figured this out ?
Naturally under linux this would have been a trivially problem to
diagnose using strace. I am using cygwin, but the strace program
doesn't seem to do anyting.
Brian